EPCOT welcomes Moana to her new meet and greet home in World Nature in October

Sep 09, 2023 in "Journey of Water Inspired by Moana"

Moana meet and greet at EPCOT

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Moana meet and greet at EPCOT

Moana meet and greet at EPCOT
Moana meet and greet at EPCOT
Posted: Saturday September 9, 2023 1:03pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Moana will arrive in World Nature on October 16, 2023, and make her first appearance in her own dedicated space near Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana in EPCOT in Walt Disney World.

The new meet and greet space carries over a similar look to Journey of Water, and is located just across from the Coral Reef entrance.

Moana meet and greet at EPCOT
Moana meet and greet at EPCOT

Disney has also announced that Journey of Water Inspired by Moana will also officially open on October 16, 2023.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana overview
Journey of Water Inspired by Moana overview

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DisCOT_971 hour ago

Did I ever suggest that? I simply stated that these things should not be happening within months of opening such things. Especially when you’ve made the consumer wait so long and had the park under walls for half a decade. It’s just bad show.

eddie1041 hour ago

Listen I get the complaints but I will never attack Disney for fixing or repairing their mistakes. It’s unfortunate that things are already breaking in a newly constructed area. Maybe they need better oversight on these projects or a different contractor.

Incomudro1 hour ago

They shouldn't break this fast. It's embarassing. And we're not talking about complicated AA's. We're talking about lights and a water feature. And those lights failed after one night.

eddie1041 hour ago

Things break…would you rather them ignore it?

tparris1 hour ago

All of this.

DisCOT_972 hours ago

The problem isn’t that they’re trying to solve the issue, it’s that this park went through a multimillion multiyear “transformation” and some of the things promised don’t even fully function. That middle area has been behind walls for how long? And those new “lights” stopped working after night one…Moana isn’t even a year old yet and it’s already proving to be a maintenance workload.

KeithVH3 hours ago

Yeah! And I bet as soon as they get the Yeti fixed, they'll straighten this brand new problem ASAP . . .

Virtual Toad5 hours ago

I can't speak for others, but to me the fact that the state of "show" at Epcot is so poor now, especially when compared to what it used to be, that lack of reliability among newer effects becomes a more glaring issue when so many other effects, new and old, remain broken or in b-mode months or even years after failing. Ironic that a park systematically stripped of complex effects and moving parts over the past 25 years remains in relatively poor condition, and definitely below the baseline WDW show standards of the past, especially when there are fewer things to maintain.

monothingie6 hours ago

eddie1046 hours ago

Why do you guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs? They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

tparris6 hours ago

Especially because many new things at EPCOT are breaking and have been broken for some time now, with absolutely no clear intention to fix

monothingie6 hours ago

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

mysto6 hours ago

Private parts.

Cmdr_Crimson6 hours ago

We can call it a FAILnale!
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